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2013 National Book Award Longlist, Poetry

Roger Bonair-Agard

Bury My Clothes

Haymarket Books

ISBN: 978-1608462698

About the Book

Bury My Clothes is a meditation on violence, race, and the place in art at which they intersect. Art—specifically in oppressed communities—is about survival, Roger Bonair-Agard asserts, and establishing personhood in a world that says you have none. Through poetry, we transform both the world of art and the world itself.